Check out this close call from an IED that was either buried too deep or didn’t have enough enough fire power. The IED is amazing and extremely frighting. It is hard to understand the people who sign up for this kind of abuse, but one must respect them. http://shock.military.com/Shock/videos.do?displayContent=149477&ESRC=airforce-a.nl I read military.com because it is […]
Wanderings
Resources for Science Fiction: Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. – Ray Bradbury
Monthly Archives: September 2007
Is the internet good or evil?
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Back in the early 1980s, I got my first PC. It was a “luggable” computer that I got cheap through an IBM employee. It was an XT that was about the size of a portable sewing machine or a vacuum cleaner. It was an XT with one floppy disk drive, 256K memory and a small […]
Don’s Ghost Movie List
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
BeetlejuiceGhostHouse on Haunted Hill (the old one)A Christmas Carol (with Alister Sims) maybe misspelledJacob’s LadderPoltergeist1408 (with John Cusack) probably also misspelledThe EntityConstantineVolvere (yes, I count this as a ghost movie, so get over it)The Frighteners ( with Michael J. Fox)The Gift only 12,Don
BBT Mag
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
BBT us shutting down. I know because I had a humorous story there for about 50 days. From BBT Editors: Thanks for your submission and thanks especially for your patience. We are returning your submission unopened and unread, and freeing it for other markets. We deeply apologize for any inconvenience or frustration this may have […]
The Final Frontier
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
A casket manufacturer has licensed the Star Trek logo. This is the way that I want to be planted. Eternal Image Licenses Star Trek(TM) – MarketWatch
Free Name A Star – Sudden Takeoff
Monday, September 17, 2007
My star naming site has suddenly taken off. It got picked up on some discussion boards last night and I have had 5000 hits in the last 8 hours. I made $10 in ads revenue and $50 in sales. I have spent all morning trying to help people who don’t know how to use a […]
Edd Cartier, Artist of the Golden Age of Science Fiction
Saturday, September 15, 2007
One of the few artists and illustrators from the golden age of science fiction still living is Edd Cartier. Along with Virgil Finlay, Kelley Freas, Hannes Bok, Lawrence Sterne Stevens and Ed Emsh, Edd Cartier drew the illustrations and painted the covers of the pulp magazines of the 1930s, 40s and 50s. You can pick […]
Blogger Play
Friday, September 14, 2007
When you upload an image to blogger, naturally blogger.com keeps track of it. One of their programmers wrote an app to watch what was being uploaded. It is mesmerizing. I am amazed at the continual beauty of the images being uploaded. Warning! if you click you will be hooked. I slowed the speed down a […]